Towel-stand ob clothes-horse



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN CRAM, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

TOWEL-STAND 0R CLOTHES-HORSE.

Specicaton of Letters Patent No.

To aZZ whom t may concern Be it known that I, JOHN CRAM, of Boston, in the county of Suiolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new or Improved Towel- Stand or Clothes Horse or Folding Frame for Holding Clothes During the Process of Drying the Same; and I do hereby declare that the said invention is fully described and represented in the fol lowing specication and the accompanying drawings, letters, figures, and references thereof.

Of the said drawings, Figure l denotes a top View. Fig. 2, is a side elevation Fig. 3, an end elevation, and Fig. 4, a vertical, central and transverse section of my improved clothes horse as unfolded or set up for the reception of clothes. Fig. 5, exhibits an end view of it, as it appears when it is folded up or together.

It is made of four, or any other suitable number of hanging frames A, B, C, C1, each of which is composed of any proper number of horizontal hanging bars a, al, a2, or b, b1, b2, o-r 0, c1, or c2, c and connecting bars CZ, d1, or el, or f, f1, or f2 f3, arranged as seen in the drawings. These frames are arranged so that the two, A, C1, may have their planes parallel or nearly so to each. other. The other two, viz., B, C, are similarly disposed but in opposite directions as seen in Fig. 3. They are connected together by two sets of crossed bars D, E, or Dt, El, arranged as seen in Figs. 2, 8, and 4, of the drawings. Each of these last mentioned bars is secured to the frames (to which it is connected) by a joint pin, g, which simply passes through the bar and so as to allow the bar to freely turn on it during the operation of either folding or unfolding the horse.

The two end bars of each of the lower frames, C, C1, are made to cross one another as seen in the drawings, and to turn on a 11,989, dated November 28, 1854.

joint pin, L, or h1. So with the two end bars of each of the frames, A, B, they turn on a joint pin z', or il, at their upper ends, such joint pins, z', 1, being made to project from a vertical frame F, composed of two upright bars Z0, Zal, united by horizontal hanging rods or bars, Z, Z, Z, Z. There is a bar, m, that eX- tends from one of the bars, D, to the other, D1, at their crossings with the bars E, El, such bar being made to pass through long slots fn., nl, formed respectively in the bars, 7c, 7::1. One or more racks G, G1, or other equivalent contrivances jointed to or made to turn upon joint pins, o, o, extended from the frame F. They are shown in the figures as connected by a cross bar, 721. These racks are intended to hook or fasten on the bar, m, for the purpose of holding the frame in such a contracted state as may be desirable at any time. They are also for the purpose of holding the frame together when folded.

Clothes to be dried are hung or laid over the hanging bars. The clothes horse so co1.-- structed forms a very convenient and portable article.

l/Vhat I claim as my invention is- The above specified mode of making a clothes horse or in other words, the combination of hanging frames A, B, C, C1, with their jointed connecting bars D, E, D1, E1, and one or more tension racks, Gr, or tension racks and the upright frame, F, or their me chanical equivalents all jointed together and made to fold up or to unfold and be used substantially as hereinbeforespecied.

In testimony whereof I have hereto set my signature this ninth day of October A. D. 1854.

JOHN CRAM.

Vitnesses R. HQEDDY, F. P. HALE, J r. 

